ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS

English Language Learners

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Abstract

This study explores how English Language Learners integrate into mainstream English classrooms. The paper incorporates two educational program models namely Bilingual and Monolingual, as well as studies how they facilitate in integrating ELL into mainstream English classroom with English speakers.

Integrating English Language Learners into Mainstream English only Classrooms

Introduction

With the growing demands for high academic achievement and accountability for all students in United States, educational policymaker provide more attention to non-English speaking background, particularly to young children aged from 3 to 8 years. English Language Learners (ELL) programs are designed for those who speak a language other than English as they cannot speak English fluently.

In the school systems, ELL growth rate has been rapidly increasing over past years, as there was a rapid increase witnessed from 300 to 400 percent in some Southern states. In some parts of United States, over 50 percent of children in preschools came from homes that are non-English speaking. Since, students of ELL have strived to speak English fluently, pushed back in academic achievement; thereby, drop rates of Latino at schools are twice in comparison native English speakers.

In the United States, Latino encounters several challenges. Approximately, 50 percent of Latino students do not reach high school. Even though, over 40 percent of Latino joins educational programs such as postsecondary, while the degree program of four years was completely by only 20 percent of Latino students.

Discussion

Latinos in Education

In the United States, the rapidly increasing segment of school aged population is of Latino. Latino students in the public school of US approximately increased at a twice rate from 1990 to 2006, reporting for 60 percent of public school enrollment. By the year 2001, nearly 17 percent of Latino children joined public elementary and secondary school students of United States. Only 11 million of Latino was studying in public schools of America. In 2008, on the regional level, Latino emerges as an increasing student population proportion across regions of United States, counting 38 percent of public secondary and elementary students in the West, in the South accounting 20 percent, while in the Northeast it is 19 percent, and in the Midwest it is about 9 percent (Honigsfeld & Dove, 2008).

It is expected that Latino student population continue to grow at a percentage of 166 by the year 2050. Therefore, the population of school-aged Latino students in US school is more than non-Latino White students. Nevertheless, Latino students come across major challenges in context of their educational achievements. Latino children are gradually expected to enter into racially isolated schools and to be alive in deprived neighborhoods. The countrywide rate of Latino dropout is over double the nationwide average. The rates of Latino college graduation have still sluggish for about three decades; as a result, among all ethnic/ racial groups Latinos encompass the lowest attendance rates in college in the United States.

Latinos are less likely to complete their college education, and by the year 2020 there will be ...